SENIOR PEOPLE MEETI recently joined an internet dating site called Senior People Meet. I had only been on for a few days and was beginning to think that maybe this was not for me. Then, Monday night I received a request to "chat" from someone from Clinton NC. I looked at his picture. The picture in the suit was nice. I looked at the next picture. I don’t know what happened to me, but maybe something about his eyes, I said yes, aloud, alone at my computer. I immediately went to his profile and read his description and what he was looking for in a companion. My hands started shaking, I thought, "he is looking for me"; at least I know I am looking for him. His profile was not what you typically see on an internet dating site. It was honest and heartfelt. He was putting it all out there, he knows who is he and what he wants. He had known true love. He had lost his wife. He was discouraged with his experience thus far with the internet site. He was looking for the same things I was looking for. I felt like he was writing to me. So many emotions went through me. I was afraid to respond to the chat. I looked up Clinton NC on the map. It wasn’t far at all. I wrote one line, I thought his profile was wonderful. My computer shut down. I don’t know what happened. I tend to believe that things happen for a reason. I sat and thought maybe he was a serial killer and this was a good thing. I remembered his eyes, there is no way he is a serial killer. Whoever he was I wanted to find out. When I finally got the computer back up, he was gone. He disappeared. He wasn’t anywhere, not on the chat request, not on people that had viewed my profile, he was just gone. I do not know why I feel such a sense of loss. I never even spoke to him.So this letter, if you are out there, is to let you know there is a woman on the Outer Banks who’s heart beat a little faster just reading your profile. So, don’t give up, don’t shut yourself off because you haven’t found who you are looking for yet. She is out there. She is looking for you too.